Hello there! Here's what I found yesterday in one of my English textbooks. I found it very strange because I never noticed that this terms were feminine. English natives, do you confirm it is true?
"In English, the masculine and feminine gender is assigned to human beings, and the neuter to non-human entities (plants, animals, objects), with some exceptions: boat, car, ship are referred to with the pronoun she; small animals (robin) are sometimes referred to with he or she on the basis of a process of personification."
This was taken from my English book.
Talking about a 999 operator: "It still surprises me to hear my voice change during a call. It changes, becoming deeper, almost authoritative. I have to take control of the situation. I suppose that's why I wear a uniform. I have a script, but I refuse to be a robot; hearing people at their most vulnerable makes me add to it. "
I don't understand the last expression, is that an idiom or something else?
